First leak from the upcoming album “Czarface Meets Metal Face” in stores March 30th! Pre Order available now at – www.GetonDown.com Rising from the wreckage of a war torn planet, Czarface joins forces with MF DOOM in the epic “Czarface meets Metal Face!”

That makes it a largely self-contained affair: the focus broadly centres on this fictional universe, at one point relaying Doom and Czarface’s first encounter in the manner of a Saturday morning cartoon: “I’m Czarface! I know a guy who can change your life… Me!… What do you say we do a little team-up?” There are occasional forays into social observations on the real world, with ‘Forever People’ taking a shot at Donald Trump’s Vice President: “My mind’s bright / Yours is dense / Like’s Mike Pence’s”. For the most part, though, you’ll need to look elsewhere for your protest music. This is escapist rap, as outlandish and oversized as a gaudy Spiderman comic – and, at times, just as much absurdist fun.

‘Nautical Depth’ throbs with a brooding bassline, overlaid with chaotic cymbal crashes and tight, conspiratorial rhymes, while ‘Badness of Madness’ features a fantastically insidious, creeping piano line. Best of all, perhaps, is the understated ‘Stun Gun’, punctuated by minimalist hi-hats and funk keyboards. At a sprawling 17 tracks, though, ‘Czarface Meets Metal Face’ is often too inward-looking to resonate; like a face encased in a shiny mask, it’s tough to connect with on a personal level.